A portrait miniature of a Biedermeier lady - image-1

Lot 284 D‡α

A portrait miniature of a Biedermeier lady

Auction 1130 - overview Cologne
16.05.2019, 16:00 - Jewellery
Estimate: 800 € - 1.200 €
Result: 1.488 € (incl. premium)
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A portrait miniature of a Biedermeier lady

Gouache on ivory. Half-figure portrait of a lady in a pink dress. In a gilt metal frame. Signed and dated lower left: Gaupman 1824 (?)". 11.8 x 9.5 cm. Frame 12.3 x 10.3 cm.
Rudolf Gaupmann, Vienna 1821 (?).

The draughtsman, lithographer, and miniaturist Gaupmann studied at the Vienna Academy as of 1828. He also worked as a drawing master to the children of Prince Metternich.

Provenance

Berlin private collection. - Acquired in 1991 from Kunsthandel Anna Maria Wager, Munich. - Exhibited at the Kunstmesse Orangerie, Berlin, October 1991.

Literature

For more on this artist cf.: Schidlof, Miniature in Europe, Graz 1964, vol. I, p. 284f.